Smart City Map of Romania
Projects and public data
We document Smart City and Smart Village projects to make visible the investments, the areas of intervention and the examples from across the country.
Lines of work. Projects that give them substance.
ARSC programmes link a public problem to objectives, people, resources and activities followed over time. Within them we bring together projects, products, funding and partners.
Three lines of work
The lines of work group ARSC’s existing activity. Each project keeps its own page, with its partners, ARSC’s contribution and its sources. Membership programmes are presented separately, under Membership programmes.
Line of work 01
Public administration and services
- The problem
- Public administrations need the capacity to plan, to prepare fundable projects and to offer digital public services that people can use.
- The change sought
- More capable administrations: data-based decisions, simpler procedures and digital skills in the community.
- Beneficiaries
- City halls, county councils, their technical teams and the citizens who use public services.
- Activities
- Dialogue between public administration leaders, frameworks for digital inclusion centres, documenting projects across the country, applied research, preparing funding.
Projects and tools
National Council of Leaders for Smart Communities
A circle of mayors, county council presidents and public administrators, brought together by invitation to contribute to Romania’s Smart City agenda.
Digital Inclusion Centre
A framework offered to local public authorities to close the digital divide: institutional documents, procurement, training and operation.
Centre for Urban Research and Education
Applied research for public administrations: studies, operational guides and training programmes, between universities and city halls.
Romania Without Counters
Digitalising the relationship between citizens and the administration: fully online procedures, documented and validated so that other city halls can adopt them.
Romania Grows With Us
An ARSC editorial section, supported by Exim Banca Românească, on local projects, funding and community development.
Smart Finance
The ARSC service for identifying funding and preparing projects.
Related ARSC products: CityTwin and VillageOne.
Line of work 02
Mobility and public transport
- The problem
- Public transport operators are moving to electric fleets and need to plan operations, charging and energy use.
- The change sought
- More efficient public transport, planned on the basis of data.
- Beneficiaries
- Public transport operators, the administrations that oversee them and passengers.
- Activities
- Developing KraftSync Transit, documenting mobility projects across the country in the Smart City Map, documented examples.
Projects and tools
Line of work 03
Energy, environment and resilience
- The problem
- Communities have to respond to environmental, energy and security risks and to use the European funding dedicated to them.
- The change sought
- More resilient communities: locally produced energy, monitored air, city halls prepared for risks.
- Beneficiaries
- City halls, schools, local communities, companies in energy, security and dual-use technologies.
- Activities
- Monitoring air in schools, energy communities, local resilience strategies, connecting companies with security funding.
Projects and tools
City Air
Monitoring air quality in schools
An ARSC initiative that brings data on the air inside and around schools to the attention of communities.
STUP Energy
The community that produces its own energy
An ARSC initiative for energy communities: the city hall, the school, businesses and neighbours produce together the energy they use.
Local Resilience and Civil Protection Strategy
A diagnosis of local risks and capacities, an action plan and a portfolio of prioritised projects, to protect the population and keep public services running.
DEFNET - Defence Network Romania
A working framework for dual-use technologies, security and resilience that connects companies, research and public administrations.
Related ARSC product: TerraScan AI, for territorial data and risks.
How to take part
Public administrations, companies, experts and local organisations can get involved in the projects of each line of work. Confirmed partners are presented on each project’s page.
Proposed collaboration model
Local development and innovation centres
We propose to public administrations a local working framework for preparing projects, using technology and involving citizens. A centre starts from agreed priorities, designated people and funded activities.
How a local centre can workWork across the country
Round tables, regional programmes and meetings with public administrations, in communities.
See the working formatsProjects and results
The list of ARSC projects and initiatives, with a page for each.
All projectsA concrete need. A possible project.
Tell us what you would like to improve and what stage the initiative has reached. Together we will establish where ARSC can contribute.